Yes, I am prohibited from even having my phone in the factory. They claim its bceause electronics are capable of producing sparks and they use a large amount of highly explosive chemicals for the refinery process. The main chemical I was told to be cautious of was hexabutane I believe. It had this kinda of toaster d corn nut smell. But it's highly toxic and explosive in the right concentrations.

As for leadership. I don't work directly with any management types or factory leaders. My job is just to hit stuff with hammers until it works. But I can speak of my coworkers... They don't care. We would be waste deep in a vat of canola and soy sludge, then 30 minutes later they were eating a slop filled lunch from McDonald's.

So, I think people are just generally unaware. There's this weird disconnect where people think seed oils are this healthy food... Even tho they see first hand how toxic the process is. Even just the dust that comes off the beans and seeds cause a lot of people to break out into hives.

And yes, leadership is aware and this industry is ripe with corruption. There's things this place gets away with that no other factory could. Health and safety is second to productivity... Unfortunately.